Hello,
My name is Álvaro Acción and I'm currently an student trainee at
CiTIUS<http://citius.usc.es/>.
My task is to adapt and integrate the current configuration management
software (CMS from now on), which is completely based on puppet (only a few
minor one-liners are used for smoe specific tasks) to Window 7 based
systems.
Introduction aside, the problem I'm facing is:
> I had a puppetmaster, version 3.2.2, running in a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
machine serving some manifests for testing purposes - this one working
correctly as per the tests conducted with some linux clients. Certs and all
the access stuff configured. All of it was painstakingly tested.
So the puppetmaster is up to date and works, that's a no brainer
> I've deployed the puppet windows clients. They are also using version
3.2.2, directly taken from open source puppet installation providers. After
getting dns resolution working and tested, I fired the puppet agent in
order to check if the client was detected by the master, and vice-versa. My
surprise cames when, after logging something along the lines of "Generating
a new certificate for client", the console spits an error: Could not
prepare for execution: "0xF3" to UTF-8 in conversion from ASCII-8BIT to
UTF-8 to UTF16-LE". From what i've seen, the first part is an standard
error message that cames from puppet. From my undestanding, the second part
is a ruby exception related to enconding (painfully and obviously related
to encoding).
Some facts:
- The error is the same with puppetmasters in versions 3.2.2 and 2.7.X
- My best guess is that is some sort of comunication problem, since
there is no cert sent for signing to the puppetmaster
* It could also be some error when sending the cert, i can not be
sure
- I test the config with "puppet agent --server=pupbuntu.inv.usc.es
--no-daemonize --verbose" It's an internal network, no access from outside,
running locally (with the domain name tweaked to simulate the actual
network). This is just to show the command, no actual interest int the
network whatsoever.
As I've not found any useful information regarding the error in any puppet
related site, forum or list, I've decided to open this thread to see if
someone can throw some insight in this matter.
Thanks
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